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by Simon Sage
Mar 06, 2012
Another fringe smartphone manufacturer, ViewSonic, continued their attack on the dual-SIM market at this year's Mobile World Congress in addition to showing off some new...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 05, 2012
One pleasant little tidbit to roll out of Mobile World Congress 2012 was an upcoming app from WhitePages. They're expanding their standard caller ID features to a bunch of social network tie-ins...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 05, 2012
The last batch of devices we looked at from ZTE at Mobile World Congress included two quad-core devices, and a few lower-end ones. At the top of the heap was the PF112. It has a 4.5-inch 1080 x 720 ...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 05, 2012
Last week at Mobile World Congress 2012, ZTE announced a lot of devices, including two LTE devices that should be coming to North America, and this 10.1-inch quad-core tablet called the PF100. ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 04, 2012
It's good to be home.
Don't get me wrong. Mobile World Congress is a blast. That we get to work for a week in Barcelona, Spain, is but one perk of this job, and certainly not one that shoul...
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by Jared DiPane
Mar 04, 2012
With Mobile World Congress behind us, and all of the wildness dying down, we are left wondering what your favorite thing was from this years event. With tons and tons of new phones announced, innova...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 03, 2012
Phil got his mitts on the Samsung Galaxy Beam at Mobile World Congress 2012, but it's definitely worth seeing the built-in projector in action.
Just to recap, the Samsung Galaxy Beam is running...
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by Simon Sage
Mar 02, 2012
Prior to Mobile World Congress 2012, ZTE had announced two LTE phones running Ice Cream Sandwich, and we got a chance to play with at least one working unit in Barcelona. A rep at the ZTE boo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 01, 2012
Besides the LG Viper 4G, Sprint will be getting at least nine other devices that run Google Wallet by years end, says Google's VP of Wallet and Payments Osama Bedier. During the Mobile Mone...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Mar 01, 2012
In addition to a flurry of new smartphones, LG also introduced its latest innovation in wireless charging this week in Barcelona. The WCD-800, a cradle that supports both vertical and horizonta...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 29, 2012
Things are winding down in Barcelona, the fellows are enjoying some of the local delicacies and getting ready for the trip home. But just because Mobile World Congress is finishing up doesn'...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 29, 2012
Toshiba announced today that their new Excite 10 LE will be available for purchase starting March 6, and a starting price of $529. Billed as the world's thinnest and lightest 10-inch tablet (7.7...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 29, 2012
One of the highlights yesterday in Barcelona was Eric Schmidt's keynote address. Schmidt always entertains, and as former CEO and current chairman at Google we're usually listening when he s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 29, 2012
We snagged a few minutes with the all-new car dock app on the HTC One series phones. Let's not beat around the bush here -- it's easily the best car app we've seen on an Android smartpho...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 29, 2012
Along with the Padfone and Transformer Pad Infinity, ASUS unveiled the Transformer Pad 300 at Mobile World Congress this week. The Transformer Pad 300 is best described as a budget version of the Tr...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 29, 2012
And here we have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 that looks more like a brother from another mother. It's a Galaxy Tab, all right. But the speakers have been brought out front -- basically it's the...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 29, 2012
Huawei isn't just upping its game when it comes to smartphones. The Chinese manufacturer's also launching a new, high-end product in the tablet space -- the Huawei MediaPad 10FHD. With high-...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 29, 2012
At Mobile World Congress 2012, Texas Instruments was demonstrating a stylus that communicates its distance from a tablet over ultrasonic frequencies. The tablet in this demo has a microphone in ea...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 29, 2012
There are those who swear by the 10-inch tablet, and then there are those who say that the smaller size is the only way to go. Samsung's brought out new hardware for both, with the newly announ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 29, 2012
The GSMA -- the group that puts on the fine Mobile World Congress we've been attending all week -- has released 17th annual Global Mobile Awards for this year's show. Of note for you Androi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 29, 2012
Awwwwww, the Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 is a cute little bugger. It's a little bizarre going from a world of 5-inch-plus smartphones down to the diminutive Galaxy Mini 2, but darned if it doesn'...
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by Android Central
Feb 29, 2012
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You didn't think we'd go an entire show without seeing some dancing Android robots, did ya? Intel had few at its booth.
And, no. We didn't dance.
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 29, 2012
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HTC held one of the biggest events at Mobile World Congress this year when they introduced the One series. It's not hard to understand, they certainly look good,...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 28, 2012
Day two of Mobile World Congress is in the bag, and it was another day filled with news from Barcelona about great Android-powered gadgets. I can't be the only one the sees phones and tablets an...
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by Simon Sage
Feb 28, 2012
Just in case you haven't had enough Android hardware from Mobile Conference 2012, even little ol' ViewSonic had some stuff to show off. Along with demonstrating some of their stuff anno...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 28, 2012
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Of the many LG phones announced at MWC, one that definitely stands out is the Optimus 4X HD. The 4.7-inch, Tegra 3 behemoth is truly something to behold. We really liked it during our initial hands...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 28, 2012
In another busy day at MWC, the latest additions to the Sony Xperia line got some UK release information. Clove Technology have been busy securing the devices, and have published their pricing and r...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 28, 2012
We're live at the Eric Schmidt keynote at Mobile World Congress, and Hugo Barra, Director of Product Management, for Android, has announced that Chrome for Android Beta is now availabl...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 28, 2012
Google chairman Eric Schmidt today at Mobile World Congress took the stage for what traditionally has been one of the premiere keynote addresses of the event.
Schmidt started the keynote pra...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 28, 2012
The ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity sees ASUS building on the Transformer Prime with a higher-resolution screen and a slightly redesigned chassis. Transformer Prime owners will already be familiar wit...
